State, while necessary, is the enemy of sanity. It should be kept to a minimum and be well marked as dangerous. The change I would most like to see in a new Ja

State, while necessary, is the enemy of sanity. It should be kept to a minimum and be well marked as dangerous. The change I would most like to see in a new Java syntax would be to make final and immutable the default. Force the programmer to make clear where state lives.